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Drupal 8 for Beginners

Explore the Power of the Content Management Platform, Drupal

Drupal is a world leader in providing content management solutions for businesses of all sizes, allowing you to build almost any kind of integrated web experience in a flexible, digestible way. The newest version, 8, brings a number of groundbreaking changes, meaning there's no time like the present to learn this valuable suite of tools. This course will start you off from scratch.

Jason Blanda has been professionally developing and deploying websites using the Drupal content management system for over 7 years. He runs the OneStop How to Guys YouTube channel, offering a wide variety of free educational courses including but not limited to Drupal 8. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Archboard Media, a website development company in Canton, Ohio, building websites and web apps on the Drupal content management system.

Learning Drupal 8 Book

Learn How to Create Complex Websites Quickly Using Drupal 8

Drupal 8 offers countless new ways to tailor and deploy content to the web. It allows users to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. This book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website, from the absolute basics, to more advanced features.

Set up a local "stack" development environment & install your first Drupal 8 site

Define content types & taxonomies & discover when to do so

Use the powerful Views module

Get hands-on w/ image & media handling

Extend Drupal using custom community modules

Develop the look & feel of your website using Drupal themes

Manage site users & permissions

Packt’s mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. Working towards that vision, it has published over 3,000 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done–whether that’s specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.

Drupal 8 Theming with Twig Book

Master the New Templating Engine to Create Websites Faster Than Ever

Drupal 8 features a new templating engine called Twig, allowing you to insert interactive, responsive themes into your sites much more efficiently. In this course, you'll learn how to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. With this exciting new tool, you'll be able to create fully responsive sites quickly while avoiding common mistakes.

Navigate the Drupal 8 Admin interface

Build custom block layouts w/ reusable & fieldable blocks

Create subthemes based on the Bartik & Classy base themes

Construct a responsive theme w/ Twitter Bootstrap

Work w/ the new Twig PHP templating engine

Configure Drupal for Twig debugging

Enable preprocessing of Twig variables

Develop a theme from scratch following a step-by-step project outline

Packt’s mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. Working towards that vision, it has published over 3,000 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done–whether that’s specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.

Drupal 8 Development Solutions

Come to Terms with All of the New Features of Drupal 8

Drupal is an open source software maintained and developed by a community of over 1,000,000 users and developers, making the new features of Drupal 8 particularly exciting as they have been built by actual users. This course is your go-to guide for experimenting with the new features and getting to grips with the new platform.

Access 44 lectures & 4 hours of content 24/7

Customize & configure the Drupal environment to your requirements

Install third-party libraries & use them in the Drupal environment

Create blocks & custom modules w/ the help of libraries

Use the latest mobile-first feature of Drupal 8 to make your apps responsive across all platforms

Incorporate multilingual facilities in your sites

Matt Glaman is a developer at Commerce Guys. He is an open source developer who has been working with Drupal since 2013. He has also been developing web apps for many years prior to this. Since then, he has contributed to over 60 community projects, including being a co-maintainer of Drupal Commerce. While mostly focusing on Drupal and PHP development, he created https://contribkanban.com, an AngularJS application, to provide Kanban boards for the Drupal community to collaborate with.

Details & Requirements

Length of time users can access this course: lifetime

Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming

Certification of completion not included

Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase

Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

Internet required

Course Outline

Up and Running with Drupal 8

Installing Drupal (8:42)

Tools for Setting Up an Environment (3:43)

The Content Authoring Experience

Configuring the WYSIWYG Editor (4:23)

Adding and Editing the Content (4:45)

Creating a Menu and Linking Content (3:45)

Providing Inline Editing (2:26)

Creating a Custom Content Type (3:09)

Applying a New Drupal 8 Core Field Types (8:28)

Customizing the Form Display and the Displaying Output of a Node (6:24)

Drupal 8 Development Beginner's Guide Book

Develop Content-Rich Websites Easily with Drupal

Drupal is fast becoming one of the most popular platforms for developing content-heavy websites, and the new version further improves the performance of the development experience. This book will help you develop your own site using Drupal 8 from scratch. Going beyond the basics, you'll get familiar with Drupal's mobile-first features, explore the built-in WYSIWYG, and much more.

Set up your Drupal development environment

Brush up on your understanding of the concepts of object-oriented programming, module development, & test-driven development

Install & configure Drupal, add new content types, & more

Enhance the content author's user experience & custom block

Find out about field Type API & explore custom theme development

Manage various media types in Drupal for your content-rich website

Packt’s mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. Working towards that vision, it has published over 3,000 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done–whether that’s specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.

Drupal 8: Enterprise Web Development Book

Harness Drupal 8 to Create Enterprise-Grade, Highly Scalable Websites

If you're going to be learning Drupal, you might as well learn it from a business perspective, right? Drupal developers can make good money in enterprise environments and this course takes you through three books covering different aspects of Drupal development. From the basics of site building, through exploring the newest features in Drupal 8, to developing themes with Twig, you'll get a comprehensive understand of how to use Drupal in the business world.

Set up a local "stack" development environment & install your first Drupal 8 site

Integrate third-party front-end & back-end libraries w/ Drupal

Understand the plugin system that powers many of Drupal 8's new APIs

Build custom block layouts w/ reusable & fieldable blocks

Work w/ the new Twig PHP templating engine

Develop a theme from scratch following a step-by-step project outline

Packt’s mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. Working towards that vision, it has published over 3,000 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done–whether that’s specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.

Mastering Drupal 8 Views Book

Accelerate Your Development Process Using Drupal 8 Views

You've probably admired the ways in which some of your favorite websites display their content. You can learn how to build complex content displays, too, with this course covering Drupal 8 views. Using a sample company, you'll take existing content and evolve it into a more complex and powerful site. By course's end, you'll have a nuanced understanding of how Drupal can be used to more effectively convey content to a user.

Create content displays that are automatically updated when you add new content

Show maps & rotating image carousels on your site

Combine content to create composite displays using the same data in different ways

Use fields from more than one content type to create powerful views of multi-table data

Modify the field data being displayed

Add headers & footers above & below a views display

Make the output of your view look exactly like a designer specifies

Change the order in which a list of content is displayed

Packt’s mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. Working towards that vision, it has published over 3,000 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done–whether that’s specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.

Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

Learn Drupal 8 Through 60 Hands-On Examples

Learn by doing with this hands-on book providing over 60 recipes to get you acquainted with Drupal 8's new features. Start by customizing and configuring a Drupal environment that works for you and move on to creating blocks and custom modules with the help of libraries. By course's end, you'll have a firm grasp of Drupal and be able to build your own content management systems.

Extend Drupal through contributed or custom modules & themes

Develop an internationalized website w/ Drupal's multilingual tools

Integrate third-party front-end & back-end libraries w/ Drupal

Turn Drupal into a web services provider using REST

Create a mobile-first responsive Drupal app

Run SimpleTest & PHPUnit to test Drupal

Understand that plugin system that powers many of Drupal 8's new APIs

Packt’s mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. Working towards that vision, it has published over 3,000 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done–whether that’s specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.